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Other witnesses told a similar story. Jack L. Warner, live wire of the Warner brothers, ticked off a list of scriptwriters he said he had refused to rehire because they were "suspected." Trumbo and Lawson heard themselves named again. Others in Warner's little Red book: Ring Lardner Jr., Clifford Odets, Gordon Kahn, Howard Koch. Paunchy Louis B. Mayer, boss...
Died. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 62, editor of Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons, discoverer and literary nurse of such notables as Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erskine Caldwell, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe lovingly caricatured Good Friend Perkins as "Foxhall Edwards"; drew a Miltonic epitaph: "Oh guileful Fox, how innocent in guilefulness and in innocence how full of guile! How straight in cunning, and how cunning-straight, in all directions how strange-devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness...
...feeding into the Post the biggest of the nation's bylines, Lorimer made it the biggest nickel's worth on the market. Contributors ranged from Jack London, Rex Beach, Irvin Cobb and Ring Lardner to such post-World War I stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Budington Kelland, Katharine Brush and J. P. Marquand. What they gave the Post was not always their best, but it was their slickest, and it was good enough to push circulation beyond...
Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Ring Lardner's Alibi Ike, directed by Fletcher Markle...
...Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25, 1931), formed to combat the impression that all famous men earned their first dollars selling newspapers. He earned his at organ-pumping, and so did such distinguished members (Chet collected about 4,000 at $5 a "diploma") as Ring Lardner, Julius Rosenwald and Jimmy Walker...